ReviewAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2024
The Role of Wastewater Treatment Plants in Dissemination of Antibiotic Resistance: Source, Measurement, Removal and Risk Assessment.
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- Beyond Antibiotics: One Health Education for Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The mobile resistome in the water-soil-air nexus: horizontal gene transfer and environmental dissemination of antimicrobial resistance genes.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2026Review
- Sorption of Antibiotics in Sewage Sludge: Distribution Coefficients, Sludge Characteristics, and Implications for Environmental Fate.Journal of xenobiotics · 2026Article
- Wastewater Treatment Challenges and Circular Reuse for One Health Sustainability: A Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Review
- Validation and application of a standardized quantitative PCR assay for the assessment of antimicrobial resistance genes in surface water.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Antibiotic resistance gradient along a large Scandinavian river influenced by wastewater treatment plants.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2026Article
- Denitrifiers Make Great Contribution to Antibiotic Resistance Genes Dissemination in the Gut of Earthworms.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Uncovering resistomes in hospital and pharmaceutical industry wastes: insights from shotgun metagenomic profiling.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2026Article
- Fitness costs and persistence of plasmid-mediated cephalosporin resistance inFrontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Ecotoxicity assessment and detection of antimicrobial compounds in urban environments and AMR hotspots.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Comparative Analysis of Concentration and Quantification Methods for Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Their Phage-Mediated Dissemination in Treated Wastewater and Biosolids.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Role of the Environment (Water, Air, Soil) in the Emergence and Dissemination of Antimicrobial Resistance: A One Health Perspective.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Phenotypic Detection of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase and Carbapenemase-ProducingAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Pollution by antimicrobials and antibiotic resistance genes in East Africa: Occurrence, sources, and potential environmental implications.Toxicology reports · 2025Review
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Abstract
Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARGs) are contaminants of emerging concern with marked potential to impact public and environmental health. This review focusses on factors that influence the presence, abundance, and dissemination of ARGs within Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) and associated effluents. Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (ARB) and ARGs have been detected in the influent and the effluent of WWTPs worldwide. Different levels of wastewater treatment (primary, secondary, and tertiary) show different degrees of removal efficiency of ARGs, with further differences being observed when ARGs are captured as intracellular or extracellular forms. Furthermore, routinely used molecular methodologies such as quantitative polymerase chain reaction or whole genome sequencing may also vary in resistome identification and in quantifying ARG removal efficiencies from WWTP effluents. Additionally, we provide an overview of the One Health risk assessment framework, as well as future strategies on how WWTPs can be assessed for environmental and public health impact.
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